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at a white house event touting the fixes and the benefits of the affordable care act, president obama drew a line in the sand. >> i've always said i will work with anybody to implement and improve this law effectively. you got good ideas? bring them to me. let's go. but we're not repealing it as long as i'm president. >> let's bring in senator pat toomey, republican from pennsylvania and a remember of the budget and finance committees. good to see you, senator. thanks for coming in. let me start with your reaction to what's going on with obama care, because the white house says they're making progress. monday alone a million unique views. the pages are loading faster, people are able to get on. how do you feel about it right now? >> well, there's no doubt there's been some progress. not enough that my wife could get on yesterday, as you know, all members of congress and our staffs are forced onto the obama care exchanges. my wife made a valiant effort and she's pretty capable person and couldn't get us signed up. i'm sure they will work out the problems with the website. the website i
at a white house event touting the fixes and the benefits of the affordable care act, president obama drew a line in the sand. >> i've always said i will work with anybody to implement and improve this law effectively. you got good ideas? bring them to me. let's go. but we're not repealing it as long as i'm president. >> let's bring in senator pat toomey, republican from pennsylvania and a remember of the budget and finance committees. good to see you, senator. thanks for coming in....
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on obama care. the healthcare.gov website had one million unique views yesterday, just confirmed by nbc's peter alexander at the white house. just moments ago, we had dueling democratic and republican news conferences, both sides blaming the other side for a lack of legislation that was signed into law this year. take a listen. >> jobs and infrastructure, the 2014 budget, immigration reform, minimum wage, enda, unemployment insurance, the farm bill and we have the brady background check. listen to the people of america who want to move congress forward and not be labeled as the most do-nothing congress in the history of the united states. >> the house has continued to listen to the american people and to focus on their concerns. now, whether it's the economy, whether it's jobs, whether it's protecting the american people from obama care, we've done our work. when you look at the number of bills passed by the house and the paltry number of bills passed by the senate, you can see where the problem is.
on obama care. the healthcare.gov website had one million unique views yesterday, just confirmed by nbc's peter alexander at the white house. just moments ago, we had dueling democratic and republican news conferences, both sides blaming the other side for a lack of legislation that was signed into law this year. take a listen. >> jobs and infrastructure, the 2014 budget, immigration reform, minimum wage, enda, unemployment insurance, the farm bill and we have the brady background check....
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chance. 52% would clean house in congress. an increasingly disillusioned generation, but a group the president needs to make the affordable care act a success. let me bring in aisha moody mill, political analyst at the center for american progress. rick tyler is president of the strategy group and a spokesman for newt gingrich. good morning. >> good morning. >> 60% ever young voters, 18 to 29 backed president obama in 2012. aisha, 47% now like him so little they'd replace them if they being. where did the enthusiasm go? >> i think young people are just a microcosm of america at large. most of america is completely disenchanted with what's happening in washington and the partisan gridlock and all we're seeing is the numbers declining for young people are the same as those declining across the board for all americans. >> the harvard institute of politics found 57% of millennials disapproved of the president's health care bill. more than half expect their costs will go up. rick, how are republicans helping young people get health
chance. 52% would clean house in congress. an increasingly disillusioned generation, but a group the president needs to make the affordable care act a success. let me bring in aisha moody mill, political analyst at the center for american progress. rick tyler is president of the strategy group and a spokesman for newt gingrich. good morning. >> good morning. >> 60% ever young voters, 18 to 29 backed president obama in 2012. aisha, 47% now like him so little they'd replace them if...
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. >>> the latest numbers on obama care offer better news. according to the kaiser family foundation, more than 243,000 people have signed up for private coverage. 567,000 more found out they're eligible for medicare. now, the white house emphasized that's in addition to the aca's provisions already at work, including one that keeps young people insured. >> at the young age of 23, justine was ballottling cancer the second time. the other day her mom, joanne, e-mailed me from cleveland university hospital where justine is undergoing treatment. she stopped by the pharmacy to pick up justine's medicine. if justine were uninsured, it would have cost her $4500. but he is insured because the affordable care act has let her and three million other young people, like monica, gain coverage boy staying on their parents' coverage until they're 26. that means justine's mom had -- all she had to cover was the $25 co-pay. >> justine and her mom, joanne, join me now from the cancer center where justine receives her treatments. good morning to both of you. j
. >>> the latest numbers on obama care offer better news. according to the kaiser family foundation, more than 243,000 people have signed up for private coverage. 567,000 more found out they're eligible for medicare. now, the white house emphasized that's in addition to the aca's provisions already at work, including one that keeps young people insured. >> at the young age of 23, justine was ballottling cancer the second time. the other day her mom, joanne, e-mailed me from...
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, we are told ended up on the desk both of president obama in the white house and of nelson mandela in his office back in south africa. we all know that this past summer when nelson mandela fell ill for the last time, president obama had a trip scheduled to that part of the world. he they did not meet but he did go inside his cell in robben island. here's what he wrote. on behalf of our family, we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield. mandela represented and i think michael sheir among others pointed out in the "new york times" today the kind of hope that would become the theme of the president's first campaign. what has been his influence on barack obama and his leadership? >> well, actually, that photo you just took of obama in june of 2013, that was the second time he was in that cell. i was with him the first time in august of 2006 when he was on as a united states senator from illinois when he was on a swing through africa. and he didn't do the kind of high profile signing that you have there, but it was important to him. i
, we are told ended up on the desk both of president obama in the white house and of nelson mandela in his office back in south africa. we all know that this past summer when nelson mandela fell ill for the last time, president obama had a trip scheduled to that part of the world. he they did not meet but he did go inside his cell in robben island. here's what he wrote. on behalf of our family, we're deeply humbled to stand where men of such courage faced down injustice and refused to yield....
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topping our agenda today, a turning point for obama care. the white house says it met its december deadline to fix healthcare.gov saying it's now working more than 90% of the time. the administration says the site can now handle 50,000 users at one time, meaning that 800,000 can register every day. white house communications director jennifer palmeri says they're confident in this site. >> we feel confident about the site working now as it was intended oerriginally conceivedo do, granted two months later than we or anyone would have liked to have seen, so we have confidence in that. >> on a conference call with reporters, jeff zients told reporters the difference between october 1st and december 1st is like night and day. >> response times are under one second. error rates are down well under 1%. and the system is stable with uptimes exceeding 90%. >> all right. so democrats, they're positive about these improvements. however, republicans say that the damage, it's already done. >> the website is improved vastly from where it was two months a
topping our agenda today, a turning point for obama care. the white house says it met its december deadline to fix healthcare.gov saying it's now working more than 90% of the time. the administration says the site can now handle 50,000 users at one time, meaning that 800,000 can register every day. white house communications director jennifer palmeri says they're confident in this site. >> we feel confident about the site working now as it was intended oerriginally conceivedo do, granted...
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he led president obama's transition team after the 2008 election. he'll help obama regain ground after the troubled obama care rollout. >>> canada is making a claim for the north pole. the government has asked the united nations to extend its border into the arctic by about a million square miles. why? it could be the fact that the north pole holds about a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 15% of its oil. that would make santa canadian, but russia, canada and denmark all claim parts of the north pole as their own. >>> the government is finally out of the car business. cnbc's jackie deangeles is here with what's moving your money. jackie, the traders resold its final stake of gm and we just learned that for the first time a woman is going to take the wheel there. >> that's right, good morning, chris. mary barra will succeed dan ackerson. and the u.s. government lost $10.5 billion on the gm bailout but the alternative would have been a lot worse. the recession could have been a depression, that's according to treasury secretary jack le
he led president obama's transition team after the 2008 election. he'll help obama regain ground after the troubled obama care rollout. >>> canada is making a claim for the north pole. the government has asked the united nations to extend its border into the arctic by about a million square miles. why? it could be the fact that the north pole holds about a third of the world's undiscovered natural gas and 15% of its oil. that would make santa canadian, but russia, canada and denmark...